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The new tide of national sentiment born in Bengal rose to inundate India in every direction, and “Bande Mataram” (“Hail to Thee Mother”) became the Congress’s national anthem, its words taken from Anandamath, a popular Bengali novel by Bankim Chandra Chatterjee, and its music composed by Bengal’s greatest poet, Rabindranath Tagore (1861–1941). As a reaction against the partition ...
A hotbed of the Indian independence movement through the early 20th century, Bengal was partitioned during India's independence in 1947 along religious lines into two separate entities: West Bengal—a state of India—and East Bengal—a part of the newly created Dominion of Pakistan that later became the independent nation of Bangladesh in 1971.
From 1757, Britain increased its control of India through the East India Company close East India Company A company that was founded in England in 1600 with the aim of trading in Asia. From 1757 ...
Dec 8, 2018 · British rule in South Asia began in Bengal between 1757 and 1765 ... Yet the British did not become the dominant power in India until the conclusion of the Third Anglo-Maratha War, which took ...
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Feb 17, 2011 · Bengal: The British Bridgehead, Eastern India, 1740-1828 in The New Cambridge History of India, (vol. II, 2) by P J Marshall (Cambridge, 1987) Top About the author
Mar 21, 2023 · A year earlier, in 1859, likewise the Bengal Rent Act allowed certain allowances to peasants against the zamindars and moneylender (Dutt, The Economic History of India in the Victorian Age, p. 263).
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How did the British East India Company Dominate most of India? By 1760, much of the sub-continent was under the East India Company's direct or indirect influence " The Company was in turn influenced by the British government, who used it to further its interests in India. London effectively let the East Indian Company rule Indian in its name.
